A. Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS-R)

A thorough revision of the original ITERS, designed to assess center-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age.

Scale consists of 39 items organized into 7 subscales:

Space and Furnishings

Personal Care Routines

Listening and Talking

Activities

Interaction

Program Structure

Parents and Staff

New curriculum and program items in the revised ITERS include: Helping children understand language; Nature/science; Use of TV, video and computer; Free play; and Group play activities. Items have been added to make the scale more inclusive and culturally sensitive, to address professional needs of staff, and to reflect the latest health and safety information.

Featuring a new spiral binding, the updated ITERS-R offers more practical assistance in the form of an Expanded Score Sheet (which contains a worksheet) and additional notes for clarification to improve accuracy in scoring. However the items and indicators remain the same as in the ITERS-R.